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Safe fieldwork in an unsafe neighborhood. Researching lynching in a Latin-American slum
Safe fieldwork in an unsafe neighborhood. Researching lynching in a Latin-American slum
On July 23, 2007 Hólger Morales is caught breaking into a house in Atucucho, a slum in the outskirts of Quito. Morales is kicked, hit and eventually set on fire by an angry mob of neighborhood residents. He dies of his injuries on the spot. The author conducted four months of ethnographic fieldwork in Atucucho in search for explanations for and meanings of the lynchings in Atucucho. In this article he highlights some of the challenges, difficulties and restrictions of doing potentially dangerous fieldwork. He discusses, among other things, the process of gaining access to the neighborhood, the importance of a good gatekeeper and the extra measures taken because of the 'delicacy' of his subject of study.

The Low Countries in the early Middle Ages. Christianity is on the rise, partly due to the efforts of missionaries such as Willibrord and Boniface. Yet the process of Christianisation is laborious. This is well illustrated in Vita Radbodi, a tenth-century Latin biography of bishop Radboud of Utrecht (c. 850-917).
In it, Radboud is depicted as a pious, serious and studious young man, who is called to the episcopate after many years of study. As bishop, he encounters problems with unbelieving Frisians and ferocious Normans. Thus, he is forced to move his seat from Utrecht to the safer Deventer.
The text offers a positive portrait of Radboud as a holy role model figure. He acts energetically, performs miracles and, of course, also possesses prophetic gifts. For instance, he predicts his own end well in time. The text ends with a vision of the Mother of God and Radboud's death and burial.
Some twenty years after the first edition by Peter Nissen and Vincent Hunink, the text is now being reissued on the occasion of Radboud University's centenary.

"Provides detailed reconstruction of and background to the developments of May 30, 1969, the date on which an industrial strike escalated into major socioeconomic unrest. In accordance with the Charter of the Kingdom, the Curaçaoan government called in the Dutch military to restore order. Despite book's title, author argues that this assistance cannot be labeled an intervention. Also claims that there were secret plans to transfer sovereignty over the Netherlands Antilles to Venezuela, but hypothesis lacks substantial proof"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

"Comprises manumission letters from 1722 to abolition of slavery in 1863. Each description contains the name, age, sex, and race of the slave, reason for release, the amount paid, and name of the owner as far as is known. Compiler has consulted records from archives of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao dating from 1722-1845 (deposited in the Public Record Office in The Hague) and records from 1845-63 in the archive of the Ministry of Colonial Affairs. Includes indexes on names of freed men and women and their former owners"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58